Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] [that] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 2 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 3 | Luke stood outside his own front door and read the note that Susan had left under the door-knocker , telling him that she was staying at the Palings Hotel . |
| 4 | On his desk was a map of the Fairfax property which he had been working on when he had the telephone call from the owner telling him that he was cancelling all the arrangements . |
| 5 | Since then , there have been about half a dozen glitzy launches — featuring among others , the Home Secretary grinning into the television cameras , telling us that something was going to be done some time . |